Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated last night by the Democratic Party as its candidate for the U.S. Presidency. She may well win o­n November 8.

What a tragedy for Western democracy that the leader of what is still called the free, democratic world cannot produce better candidates than Trump and Clinton through a disgustingly commercialized and corrupt political process where candidates like Jill Stein Ц did you ever hear of that candidate? Ц doesnТt have a chance because she cannot mobilize the funds.

As a European intellectual with a life-long commitment to peace and democracy, I find little reason to celebrate.

And why the total focus o­n a few individuals at the top but not the structures that will run them both, such as the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC); the cancer in many societies, including Russia, that President Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell speech already in 1961?

How short the media memory! Hillary ClintonТs nomination celebrated all over the mainstream press as a victory for the party Ц preventing it from splitting Ц and for all women.

But how can people Ц women in particular Ц really believe in such genderism: that she will be a better president for the US and the world because sheТs a woman? HasnТt the world learnt anything from the inverse racism: that Obama would be a great president because he is black?

How blind the media to militarism, war and other violence: Not o­ne media focuses o­n the ClintonТs well-documented fascination with violence and war.

ItТs time to refresh the memory of the Clintons:

Bill ClintonТs record

From 1994 BC broke all promisesmade by his predecessors and other Western politician to Gorbachev about Уnot expanding NATO an inchФ. He started out in Tblisi, Georgia. I happened to be there, spoke with the U.S. representative to the country and got a sense what was coming. Later too in Yugoslavia.

There is a straight line from that fatal arrogance to todayТs Second Cold War in Europe, Ukraine having Ц predictably Ц to be the this-far-and-no-longer country of that mindless and reckless expansion that should never have happened.

BCТs interventionist record is also forgotten: He bombed in Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia Ц the latter much much worse from any point of view than the Russian annexation of Crimea. It was based o­n the fake Rambouillet УtalksФ between Serbs and Kosovo-Albanians, his public liesabout there being an ethnic cleansing of all Albanians in Kosovo coming from Slobodan Milosevic whom he called a new Hitler.

No such plan was ever found Ц and I know a bit about it because I was a goodwill adviser both to three governments in Belgrade and to the non-violent Kosovo-Albanian leadership under Ibrahim Rugova.

It was ClintonТs Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who masterminded much of it and is o­n record for saying that it was politically justifiable that the sanctions o­n Iraq had killed 500.000 innocent people. And they continued.

And she, having survived as a refugee child in Belgrade, Serbia, with her Czechoslovakian family during the Second World War and spoke Serbian is o­n record for hatred of the Serb people.

Conveniently, the West has forgotten it all. BC is such a charming man (who just told us at the reality show-like democratic convention how much he loves his wife).

His administration was o­ne of the most militarist.

Hillary ClintonТs record

There is no excuse for having forgotten her record. GFrom 2009 to 2013, she served as Secretary of State under Obama, the US president who has been engaged in warfare during more days than any other US Presidentaccording to the New York Times.

She is a Cold Warrior, anti-Russia, anti-Putin Russians will be great for fighting Putin. Her war-promoting record is as long as it is well-documented.

The most solid documentation is that of professor Stephen Zunes. Zunes is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco teaching courses o­n the politics of Middle East and other regions, U.S. foreign policy, nonviolence, conflict resolution, and globalization. He currently chairs USFТs Middle Eastern Studies Program. He serves as a senior policy analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, a contributing editor of Tikkun, and a member of the academic advisory council of the International Center o­n Nonviolent Conflict. Professor Zunes is also a TFF Associate and here is his analysis of Hillary ClintonТs systematic fascination with war and everything military, УHillary The HawkФ.

AS if this was not enough, here is a Mark LandlerТs brilliantly researched analysis Ц again in The New York Times Ц of HCТs persistent cultivation of American exceptionalism, interventionism, war and Уthe men with medals.Ф He writes:

Unlike other recent presidents Ч Obama, George W. Bush or her husband, Bill Clinton Ч Hillary Clinton would assume the office with a long record o­n national security. There are many ways to examine that record, but o­ne of the most revealing is to explore her decades-long cultivation of the militaryЧ not just civilian leaders like Gates, but also its high-ranking commanders, the men with the medals. Her affinity for the armed forces is rooted in a lifelong belief that the calculated use of military power is vital to defending national interests, that American intervention does more good than harm and that the writ of the United States properly reaches, as Bush o­nce put it, into Уany dark corner of the world.Ф Unexpectedly, in the bombastic, testosterone-fueled presidential election of 2016, Hillary Clinton is the last true hawk left in the race.

I can o­nly hope that I am wrong but I fear that Hillary Clinton Ц if she becomes the next President of the United States Ц is likely to be yet another militarist disaster for the world.

And for the US itself whose manifest destiny is now manifest decline, caused mainly by all the failed wars, the cost of militarism and their consequences and blowback effects.